The challenge is quite simple...attempt to refuse single-use plastic during July.

﻿﻿Plastic Free July aims to raise awareness of the amount of single-use disposable plastic in our lives and challenges people to do something about it. You can sign up for a day, a week or the whole month and try to refuse ALL single-use plastic or try the TOP 4: plastic bags, water bottles, takeaway coffee cups and straws.

Join thousands of people from over 80 countries saying NO to single-use plastic this July. Read our 2015 media release for the full story.﻿﻿

A problem......Plastic is designed to last forever, yet every day we use it for disposable items which last a few minutes and throw away. Most is landfilled, some is recycled and some ends up in the environment. It is estimated that 8 million tonnes enter the oceans per year where it entangles and is ingested by wildlife. Every bit of plastic ever made still exists somewhere and in the first 10 years of this century there was already more plastic produced than the entire last century. Read more......

With ﻿solutions﻿.....Every day we encounter single-use plastic: bags, water bottles. straws, food packaging & takeaway coffee. We can all take steps to avoid plastic becoming a problem. Remember your shopping bags and water bottles, refuse overpackaging (like those ridiculous bananas packaged in a polystyene tray wrapped in clingfilm!), choose reusable alternatives and pick up plastic litter. When you sign up we'll email you ideas, tips and recipes each week in July. Sign up here.....

We﻿﻿can share.....Alone we are a drop, together an ocean! Sign up yourself, your business, group or school. We have plenty of ideas here or try these new initiatives: